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The article discusses the potential implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on the international security environment and highlights assessments by the U.S. intelligence community. It identifies various areas where the pandemic could bring about changes, including shifts in global governance, impacts on U.S. global leadership, alterations in great power competition, changes in democratic and authoritarian governance, economic effects, and shifts in military operations.

The article presents a report from the U.S. Congressional Research Service on potential implications of COVID-19 for the international security environment. It discusses various areas of potential change, including shifts in world order, global governance, U.S. leadership, relations with China and Russia, government forms, economic dynamics, and more, with a focus on how these changes could impact U.S. foreign and defense policy.

The article presents a report by the U.S. Congressional Research Service which describes global research and development landscape and implications for the Department of Defense. It mentions about increasing Department of Defense collaboration and engagement with industry and academia by driving the development of key technologies, and create a more agile and innovative department. It also informs on the take of Congress in addressing technical superiority.

The article focuses on potential issues posed by military artificial intelligence (AI) development for the U.S. Congress. Topics discussed include right balance of commercial and government funding for development; changes, if any, are necessary in Congress and Department of Defense to implement effective oversight of AI development; and use of the same for defense semiautonomous and autonomous vehicles.

Conservatives often say that Big Tech companies, especially Facebook and Twitter, discriminate against conservative viewpoints. However, conservatives make two assumptions that, on closer inspection, are faulty: (1) that Big Tech's censorship is 'systematic' and (2) that this is a violation of free speech rights. Thus, they claim, government must act to vindicate the rights of conservative Americans. These claims of bias are difficult to substantiate, partly because the algorithms the companies use to moderate cannot distinguish the speech's viewpoint and partly because we do not have access to the data due to privacy laws. Often, removed content that conservatives say proves bias is a case of the algorithm taking a claim too literally. The solution conservatives want--greater government intervention on behalf of free speech--is complicated by the fact that the First Amendment applies only to government action. Social media platforms would be held to the First Amendment only if the government coerced these companies. Moreover, social media companies have some First Amendment rights to control their platforms. The conservative case needs a recognized governmental interest that might legitimately limit the platforms' First Amendment rights. In Buckley v. Valeo, the Supreme Court recognized that the government could limit First Amendment rights (in that case, the right to contribute to electoral campaigns) to prevent 'the appearance of corruption.' The Court found that an 'appearance of corruption' arising from large contributions to candidates could cause Americans to lose faith in representative democracy. Many Americans, not just Republicans and conservatives, doubt social media companies treat users' speech fairly. Such beliefs could plausibly undermine trust in representative government. Conservatives should propose policies that ofer the least restrictive means to prevent the appearance of corruption. Many policies considered by conservatives and others impose significant costs to the First Amendment rights of social media companies and to society in general. More modest eforts focusing on transparency or other ways to foster trust in content moderation should be on the public agenda. Finally, social media itself is trying to build trust in content moderation through institutions like Meta's Oversight Board, which show promise of protecting speech without government intervention., Social media platforms are private companies that give users a venue for speech, and the biggest platforms provide the largest audiences for that speech. They also sell advertisements and are [...]

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